

Jason King
Jason King - a suavely sophisticated former secret agent turned novelist - travels the world searching for material to fill his books, encountering an endless parade of glamorous women, exotic locales, menacing villains and daring intrigue! Before Austin Powers swung into action, Jason King set the standard for the hip crime-fighting international playboy!
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1.Wanna Buy a Television Series?
15-09-197150 minIn order to interest a television mogul in buying his stories for the small screen, novelist and adventurer Jason King describes to the man a typical plot involving his hero, Mark...

2.A Page Before Dying
22-09-197150 minBritish Intelligence plan to copy the plot of Jason's book, 'A Page Before Dying', to smuggle Gorini, a man who has information for them, out of East Berlin hidden in a safe. The f...

3.Buried in the Cold, Cold Ground
06-10-197150 minJason needs to finish his latest book, so he decides to go into isolation in the south of France. When he picks up a pretty hitchhiker and a recently released prisoner, it becomes...

4.A Deadly Line in Digits
13-10-197150 minOn a visit back to England, Jason finds himself with income tax problems. However, it turns out to be a way of blackmailing him into helping the police solve a series of robberies...

5.Variations on a Theme
20-10-197150 minA close friend of Jason King, a double agent called Alan Keeble, was supposed to be dead. However, when Jason receives a letter telling him to come to Vienna to meet Alan, he just...

6.As Easy as A.B.C
11-11-197150 minTwo English criminals, Charles and Edward, are committing copy-cat robberies stolen from the plots of Jason's books, which causes the police to take an interest in the author after...

7.To Russia with.... Panache
17-11-197150 minJason is abducted in order to help the Moscow police work out how three men on a workers' delegation, got into a lift and then, when the doors opened again, there was nothing left...

8.A Red Red Rose Forever
01-12-197150 minJason is mistaken as a hit man when he is left holding a bunch of roses at a Swiss airport after coming to the aid of a seriously ill man. To Jason's horror, the roses are soon to...

9.All That Glisters (Part One)
08-12-197150 minAn antique salt cellar made of gold by Benevenuto Cellini is stolen in California from collector Dreshfield by thief Frankie Luca, who brings it to Paris to sell to Philippe De Bri...

10.All That Glisters (Part Two)
15-12-197150 minHaving killed De Brion, who was out to double-cross him, Luca gets on a train to Rome with the Cellini salt cellar, pursued by Jason and Mallen. In Italy a former Mafioso called An...

11.Flamingoes Only Fly on Tuesdays
29-12-197150 minJason arrives on a Caribbean island and find himself in the middle of a revolution when he inadvertently makes a remark about flamingos.

12.Toki
05-01-197250 minIn France, Jason meets Toki, whose boyfriend Jean Le Grand and another gangster, Olivier, plan to steal a cache of emeralds — after which Le Grand plans to kill Olivier. Given that...

13.The Constance Missal
12-01-197250 minJason falls under the hypnotic spell of two glamorous thieves, Claudia and Elaine. Claudia steals from him the only copy of his recently completed film script, and she and Elaine d...

14.Uneasy Lies the Head
19-01-197250 minHaving refused to help the British government investigate an international drugs ring, Jason is surprised to learn that a man in Istanbul is impersonating him. This turns out to be...

15.Nadine
02-02-197250 minJason is suffering writer's block, so his publisher sends him to Greece to inspire him. However, some Greek criminals use a beautiful woman to seduce Jason, using his fame to smugg...

16.A Kiss for a Beautiful Killer
09-02-197250 minJason travels to a South American republic to receive an award — in the form of a medallion — for one of his books. In fact, both the corrupt President Cordoba, who has bugged the...

17.If It's Got to Go — It's Got to Go
16-02-197250 minJason's temporary secretary in Germany convinces him to go to a health clinic. However, when several strange events occur, he realises that there is much more to the clinic than it...

18.A Thin Band of Air
03-03-197250 minJason is in Paris taking publicity photos for his latest novel, when a man with a rifle shoots at him. It appears that there is bounty of 100,000 francs on him, but who is putting...

19.It's Too Bad About Auntie
10-03-197250 minAndrew Bishop is a nasty piece of work, who lives with — and makes life unpleasant for — his elderly, housebound Aunt Claire. One day, in the process of robbing a house, he commits...

20.The Stones of Venice
17-03-197250 minArriving in Venice, Jason is surprised to learn that he is the apparent author of a book entitled 'The Stones of Venice', which he assuredly is not. However, after he is attacked b...

21.A Royal Flush
24-03-197250 minA mysterious girl calling herself Karen, invites Jason to meet her at the Capri hotel, but when he gets there he finds a note requesting he catches up with her at a night-club. He...

22.Every Picture Tells a Story
31-03-197250 minJason makes a stopover in Hong Kong, where his character Mark Caine appears in a Chinese comic strip — but with deliberate alterations to Jason's original story in the translation....

23.Chapter One: The Company I Keep
07-04-197250 minJason King arrives in Rome just after a night-club dancer is murdered. When he finds out that the events in the book he is currently writing, mirror what is happening in real-life,...

24.Zenia
14-04-197250 minWhilst travelling on a plane, Jason recognizes a man whom he knew from his Department 'S' days to be a professional assassin, and so he is intrigued and on his guard when he arrive...

25.An Author in Search of Two Characters
21-04-197250 minIn London, Jason is paid a great deal of money for a film script, only to be relieved of it by two robbers. Later, whilst taking a moonlight stroll he sees an astronaut shooting so...

26.That Isn't Me, It's Somebody Else
28-04-197250 minJason has an invitation to go to Italy and stay with Bonisalvi, an international criminal who lives in the most secure seclusion. A rival gangsters' syndicate uses the opportunity...
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